So the summer arrives, and that means a large demographic for the video game industry has a lot more time to play games. Hopefully that corresponds to some quality coming out.
However, I have been rather bored recently with some of those big title releases. Those FPS in recent months? They appear to be some sort of Modern Warfare variant. In fact, if you change the setting to somewhere in the US, make the guns contemporary 21st century models, and make the characters Earthlings, then you pretty much have Modern Warfare 2. Ugh. There's Bulletstorm (I think that's what it was called) that added some slapstick cartoonish stuff kind of like Borderlands I guess, which was nice and I did like it though. Still, I didn't exactly go through that whole thing. Ah, that does remind me. Homefront, that game about some universe where North Korea invades the US or something, felt to me a lot like MW2. Want to swap out North Koreans with some other Communist nation? Preferably, their neighbors to the north? And I don't mean China. Keep going north.
I'm somewhat into FPS games, even if I suck at them. It's somehow hilarious when I keep getting owned by my friends, and even more so when I manage to own them instead, usually through sheer chance. But recently, I haven't really found any that are fun. Note that by fun, I don't mean it has to have stunning graphics that make each bullet/plasma bolt/laser beam/whatever other thing hitting my virtual avatar feel like I'm actually being torn apart. I'd just like something with nice functionality and stuff. But hm, Halo works for that, honestly. So I guess I'm cool in terms of FPS games.
But now for the stuff where I sit down alone and escape into some imaginary world...Eh? I got nothing so far. Starcraft only goes so far, and I'm not getting into the multiplayer part anytime in the near future. I almost made a horrible life choice when I got into competitive SC, and I don't plan on returning to it anytime soon. Oh, maybe I should make it clear. My preferred console is the PC, and obviously I can play most titles that will be released. Stuff like...was it Shadowrun that required a PC from the 22nd century? Yeah, those, no. Don't recommend those please. I also like taking the DS for a stroll. That does remind me, I have yet to get the latest Pokemon generation.
Now here's the shocker: I actually like the Wii. As hard as it may be for some people to believe, I actually do play some games socially, meaning I play with real people, whose real bodies are actually in the same general vicinity as my real body, and we play a game on the same console connected to the same screen, using different controllers, all of which have actual physical presence in the real world. In other words, I do get friends over to play games. It's always fun when you have someone else there with whom to play, but DDR is a bit intense and I'm not exactly playing a game to become a marathon runner. I'll just exercise for that. I exercise too, in case that was going to be a question.
So uh...Anything good for the Wii that is entertaining either for several people, or just myself, coming out in the next few weeks or sometime in June?
